Carol Brown (NZ/Aus) & Gregory Lorenzutti (Brazil/Aus) live in Naarm/Melbourne. Carol is a dancer/choreographer and artist-scholar and Gregory is a dancer, photographer and urban farmer. They started working together at the University of Melbourne. Carol curated Gregory’s Theatrum Botanicum and Plant Nation for VCA Dance. They have a shared interest in ecologies of performance incorporating the human and more than human. Gregory began his career as a dancer in Brazil. Carol is from Ōtepoti/Dunedin where she danced with Shona Dunlop-MacTavish. This is their first co-creation.
Carol Brown’s practice is informed by questions of space, virtuality and environmental change. She has created over 50 works for screen, site and stage. Her work has been recognised by a prestigious Jerwood Award for Choreography, a NESTA DreamTime Award and through a three year AHRC Fellowship. Carol Brown Dances have toured internationally with the British Council, and had residencies in the US, Malaysia, Spain, Czech Republic and Australia. Collaboration is vital to her work as evidenced by the many collaborations she sustains with artists from architecture, design, photography, music and digital arts. Since July 2019 she has been Head of Dance and Professor of Choreography at the Victorian College of Arts, University of Melbourne.

Gregory Lorenzutti is a Brazilian-Australian artist and food grower working between the spaces of photography, dance and organic agriculture. Gregory comes from a lineage of farmers and ecologists in his family in Brazil and he works in the intersection between plants and humans as creative conduit for ecological thinking and practices with movement, performance and gardening. His artistic and farming practices span through ballet companies, contemporary dance, butoh, visual arts, TV & film and Rio de Janeiro Carnival Parade, edible garden designs, community food programs and plant & interspecies performance interactions. He is frequently working in Brazil, Latin-America, USA, Europe and Australia. As a migrant, Gregory believes that working with the land and growing organic food through non-violent and ecological methods reflects directly in questions about belonging and identity.